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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Nashville, TN
NWS Nashville, TN issued this tornado warning at Jan 23, 2012, 1:37 AM CST for 4 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 23 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2012, 1:37 AM CST (07:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2012, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Nashville, TN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Davidson County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 1:46 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Hendersonville, TN | TREE BLOCKING LANE ON NEW SHACKLE ROAD AT LONG HOLLOW PIKE. |
| Jan 23, 1:50 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | Gallatin, TN | POWER LINES DOWN AT 1112 DOUGLAS PLACE IN GALLATIN. |
| Jan 23, 1:55 AM CST | TSTM WND GST 62 | 4 Nw Gallatin, TN | TRAINED SPOTTER MEASURES 62 MPH GUST 4 NW GALLATIN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 10:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 3 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
711
WFUS54 KOHX 230737
TOROHX
TNC037-165-187-189-230800-
/O.NEW.KOHX.TO.W.0010.120123T0737Z-120123T0800Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
137 AM CST MON JAN 23 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DAVIDSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
SOUTHWESTERN SUMNER COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHEASTERN WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
NORTHWESTERN WILSON COUNTY IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE...
* UNTIL 200 AM CST
* AT 131 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FOREST HILLS...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
FRANKLIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NASHVILLE...LEBANON...GALLATIN...RURAL HILL...LAKEWOOD...GREEN
HILL...GOODLETTSVILLE...BELINDA CITY...MOUNT JULIET...
HENDERSONVILLE AND BERRY HILL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3655 8652 3626 8623 3608 8649 3610 8651
3606 8653 3607 8653 3608 8654 3606 8657
3604 8656 3601 8661 3599 8662 3590 8674
3609 8695
TIME...MOT...LOC 0736Z 222DEG 58KT 3610 8679
$$
BOYDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Nashville, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 11:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Stewart | 7 min |
| Jan 22, 11:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 7 more | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 11:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 11:56 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 7 more | 64 min |
| Jan 23, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys | 43 min |
| Jan 23, 12:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Perry, Wayne | 20 min |
| Jan 23, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery and 3 more | 47 min |
| Jan 23, 12:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence and 12 more | 50 min |
| Jan 23, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Dickson, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 12:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Williamson | 37 min |
| Jan 23, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Maury | 15 min |
| Jan 23, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Macon, Robertson and 5 more | 32 min |
| Jan 23, 1:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Robertson, Sumner, Williamson | 39 min |
| Jan 23, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Wilson | 25 min |
| Jan 23, 1:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Smith, Sumner and 3 more | 34 min |
| Jan 23, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Putnam, Rutherford and 3 more | 36 min |
| Jan 23, 2:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee | 28 min |
| Jan 23, 2:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Overton and 3 more | 59 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.